Khoshut

The Khoshuud are one of the four major sub-groups of the Western Mongolian Oirat. The princes of the descendants of Chinggis Khan Khoshuud are drittjüngstem brother, Khabutu Khasar ( † after 1218 ).

History

The main settlement area of ​​the Khoshuud was in the range of the Ordos Plateau in southern Inner Mongolia / Gansu Corridor to East Tibet ( Amdo ), but shifted in the course of the 17th century more and more to Inner Tibet into it.

The most famous representatives of the Khoshuud is the prince Gushri Khan (1607 (?) -1655 ), Who helped the Gelugpa under the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso to not only competing against the Order (especially the Karmapa ) enforce, but also its secular extend power over central Tibet also.

Gushri Khan's descendants look certainly remains as " kings of Tibet ", the 5th Dalai Lama and his regent in Tibetan politics predominantly left a free hand. Nevertheless, wore neither the fifth nor the subsequent Dalai Lamas ever the title of king, but as the 20th century arisen in the west term " llama Kingdom » sometimes makes faith.

Hegemonic temptations among the various Oiratenfürsten whose military impact to be felt also got central Tibet ( particularly during periods Lhabzang Khan) threatened to break the unity of the Khoshuud. Lobsang Tendsin ( blo bzang bstan dzin ), a grandson Gushri Khan, therefore, tried anew to unite the tribes. Since, however, he thereby the imperialist dream Gushri Khan - the re-establishment of a large - Khanate - had in view, he was bound to the existing imperial power, the Manchu Chinese empire fail. When he turned his supremacy in 1723 with his troops in open rebellion in question, hit the Kaiserhof back with full force. This was the important political role of Khoshuud that made her hold nearly two centuries, the power in Tibet in his hands, to an end.

A large number of Tibetan monasteries in Amdo who had supported Lobsang Tendzins rebellion were also destroyed by the imperial troops - but later their reconstruction was subsidized with government funds. Thus began a very close connection of the most important lamas in Amdo to the imperial house, which accelerated the decline of the Khoshuud -Mongolian influence in East Tibet. Today, Mongolian groups in Qinghai found only in Tsaidambecken and a few south of the Rongwo Valley in Autonomous County Henan. The latter in particular are very strong tibetisiert - many of them do not speak Mongolian more. It was the prince of this Khoshuud strains in Henan, the 1709 originating from Amdo influential Tibetan Lama Ngawang Tsöndrü ( 1648-1721 ) visited at Drepung in Lhasa and asked him to return to his homeland and to build there with his financial support of a monastery: he contributed significantly to the creation and subsequent evolution of large Labrang Tashi Chil, was to become the most important Gelugpa monastery university outside of Central Tibet.

Khoshuud - Prince in Tibet

  • Gushri Khan 1634-1655
  • Dayan Khan Otschir 1656-1668
  • Dalai Khan 1668-1697
  • Tenzin Wangchuk Khan
  • Lhabzang Khan 1700-1717
  • Lobsang Tenzin? -1723
Wade–Giles Ordos Desert Güshi Khan
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